gauntlet
Example Sentences
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To sum up this latest Premier League weekend, Manchester City threw down the gauntlet by closing the gap to two points with a tension-filled win against Newcastle United.
From BBC
Buster Murdaugh was married last spring to Brooklyn White, who’d held his hand every morning of the trial as he walked the gauntlet of photographers outside the courthouse.
Starrs became CEO in October and ran the gauntlet of an earnings report and post-results call with analysts for the first time on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch
Michael Livingston, a professor of medieval history at the Citadel, previously picked up that gauntlet with books offering new interpretations of Agincourt and of Edward III of England’s victory at Crécy in 1346.
On paper, it sounds like infrastructure-building, an ambitious laying down of the gauntlet.
From Salon
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